Vietnam War update reports heavy shelling and raids
The article describes Communist shelling near the DMZ and in Hue Quang Ngai Pleiku and Fire Base 5 with several ARVN casualties. A truck convoy carrying 150 tons of rice was ambushed near the Cambodian border. In Cambodia, fighting around Vihea Suor marshes continues with allied air strikes and 2000 North Vietnamese against 5000 Cambodian defenders.
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Pleiku
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Penh
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Vihea Suor
Smith Vetoes One Year Budget Urges 1972 Spending Cure
Governor Smith denounces runaway spending in Texas fiscal policy. He plans a special session to draft a 1973 budget with welfare included but no new taxes, aiming to meet Washington welfare aid expectations and curb per capita spending from 1940 to 1972. He criticizes the House Senate Conference Committee for demanding higher taxes and questions the two year tax program.
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Smith
Washington
House Senate Conference
Welfare Bill Spotlighted In Congress This Week
Congress shifts focus from Vietnam to Nixon’s family assistance plan proposing at least 2400 dollars yearly for a family of four. Senate fate remains unclear amid six week draft talks and battles over debate limits with bipartisan support but opposition from conservatives and liberal Democrats. Hearings on secret Vietnam War documents and end the war resolutions also planned.
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UPI
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Nixon
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Black Caucus
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Crosby Baytown twister injures ten in mobile home area
Weather reports show light rain in most areas with Sunday night outages. Southeast Texas suffered damage as a tornado struck near Crosby Baytown, injuring ten people with one serious case. Eleven trailers torn, seven reduced to kindling. National Weather Service confirms four tornadoes in the morning, Crosby Baytown ground contact single.
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Baytown
Crosby
Apache
National Weather Service
Crosby-Baytown
Plane Collision Fatal To Flier Near Berry College
Two Navy A4L Skyhawks collided near Rome Georgia during a routine training mission. Lt. Fred R. Boardman of Plantation Florida was killed, while Lt. Cmdr. John E. Owens Jr. bailed out and survived. Debris scattered across Berry College campus as ground casualties were avoided.
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UPI
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Fred R. Boardman
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John E. Owens Jr
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Marietta
Berry College
Georgia
Medical School Unhurt By Veto
Gov. Preston Smith's veto of second year appropriations is not expected to affect the new Texas Tech School of Medicine. An aide said Tech had authority under a separate bill to issue tuition backed bonds to fund the medical school. The appropriations bill only added funds to service a 17.5 million bond issue.
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Preston Smith
Niew
Texas Tech
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Tech
Trial Of Pair Charged In Dallas Massacre Set
The Dallas mass murder case proceeds under heavy security with four deputies wounded and a fifth unhurt after leaping from a levee. Prosecutors seek the death penalty while Wade vows a full, forceful prosecution with Bell County officials coordinating the defense led by Stanley Kach.
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Lopez
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R T. Scales
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Evi
Dence
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Ruby
Stanley Kach
John J. Solon
Don Metcalfe
Florentino Ramirez
Talents Due Legal Use Phone Firm Employs Bilker
Josef Carl Engressia Jr., 22, who is blind, begins work today as a $2 an hour employee at Millington Telephone Co. in Memphis area. He previously faced fraud charges for wiring free long distance calls using a whistle device, was fined, and had charges dismissed for insufficient evidence. Engressia grew up in Miami, studied math at the University of South Florida, and built the device with a friend to bypass billing systems. He believes the job will test how far a blind person can go in the telephone business.
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Millington Telephone Co
South Central Bell
Ray Churchill
Miami
University of Southern Florida
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Millington
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Howard
Louisiana crowd seeks court ruling at rock festival
Thousands of youths jam south central Louisiana seeking a rock festival deemed unlawful. More than 2,000 stay on the old plantation grounds amid police food bans, a thunderstorm, and tickets at $28 while a federal court orders a hearing on festival promoter rights.
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UPI
Louisiana
Cubans Rescue Ex Texas Pair After Yacht Hits Reef
Two former Texas residents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Caulfield Jr, were rescued by Cuban authorities after their yacht Saturna struck a reef off a Caribbean coast. They were taken to Moron in Camaguey province as guests of the government. the U S State Department notified their parents in Waco.
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UPI
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Thomas Caulfield Jr
Waco
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Camaguey
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Appointment of Thomas Oates as St Helena Governor
London AP reports Thomas Oates a career foreign service officer will succeed Dermod Art Murphy as governor of St Helena, the island crown colony in the South Atlantic. The appointment places Oates in charge of the colonial administration on the remote offshore territory.
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Thomas Oates
Foreign Service
Dermod Art Murphy
St. Helena
Fandangle Pageants at Fort Griffin Entertains Texas Panhandle
The two pageants near Albany recreate the wild west at Fort Griffin with scenes of cattlemen cavalrymen saloon life and buffalo hunters. Fandangle runs June 24 to 26 with a parade at 6 PM on June 24 and a lively Texas theme praised for song dance and Longhorn displays.
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Prairie Theater
Albany
Old Fort Griffin
Times seeks court ruling to resume Pentagon papers exposure
The New York Times asks a three judge appeals court to lift a stay and resume publishing the Pentagon papers. Washington Post faces a parallel hearing as the government fights publication amid national interest concerns.
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Daniel Elisberg
Elisberg
McCloskey
Budget battles mark Texas veto spree during Heatly era
Governor Smith criticized the Mutscher budget plan amid the Dirty 30 challenge to redistricting bills. He vetoed funds for a Quanah Parker center at Copper Breaks, an oral history program, a Clarendon research center, a Spindletop museum at Lamar State, and a Stephen F Austin Hotel office remodel. He also killed a neuropsychiatric institute item and El Paso Community College startup costs citing lack of request, clear definition, or local funding.
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Smith
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Paducah
House
Copper i Brakes State Park
Heatly
Clarendon
Historical Survey Committee
Lamar State
Beaumont
Stephen F. Austin
Austin
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Peak Plunge at Mountain Peak Leaves Two Dead
Rescue teams faced heavy snow and a flooded hole as two climbers drowned after a dam formed in the stream. Betts noted wetsuits would be needed to reach the bodies buried under 13 feet of ice and snow, with recovery days away. It marks the second fatal accident in just over a week following a rock fall involving Duncan Will, a Bethesda college student.
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Betts
Duncan Will
Bethesda
Jacksonville calm returns after four nights of violence
Jacksonville Florida police said Negro neighborhoods scarred by four nights of arson looting sniping and vandalism were calm on Sunday night and the city appeared back to normal according to officials.
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